Istvan Kertesz's early death from a swimming accident in 1973 meant that he performed very little in Salzburg. In the previous decade he quickly established...continue...
Recording information: Mozarteum (08/11/1962)....continue...

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony would be his farewell to Bayreuth and was in fact one of his very last concerts anywhere, for it took place just...continue...
Recording information: Festspielhaus Bayreuth (08/09/1954)....continue...

International Record ReviewThe overwhelming excitement of the evening is reflected from the start in Karl Böhm's conducting of the overture...The performance really does belong to...continue...
Recording information: Wiener Staatsoper (11/05/1955)....continue...

BBC Music MagazineAn unexpectedly effective coupling of two concertos that inhabit completely different worlds... Steinbacher certainly has the measure of both, delivering technically impec...continue...